Business-directory



(No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 1.

' J. D. BRGWNING. BUSINESS DIREGTURY.

No. 556,842. Patented Mar. 24, 1896.

{No Model.) 2 Sheets Sheet 2.

J. D. BROW/NING. BUSINESS DIREGTORY.

No. 556,842. Patented Mm. 24, 1896.

A TTOHNEYS.

W/TNESSES:

PATENT FlllCE@` .IOIIN D. BROVNING, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

BUSINESS-DIRECTORY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,842, dated March24, 1896.

Application filed July 12, 1895. Serial No. 555,794. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN D. BEOWNING, of Louisville, in the county ofJefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and ImprovedBusiness-Directory, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in business-directories in general, butis more par ticularly an improved telephone-list and business-directorycombined.

The invention consists in the arrangement, on the sheets or boardsconstituting the body of the directory and carrying the names ofsubscribers arranged in alphabetical order, of the names and addressesof other parties having various occupations, While on the margin of suchsheets or cards are printed the titles which indicate such occupationsand whose initials are the same as those of the subscribers names on thesaine sheet or page thereof. Thus the directory affords a convenient andready reference to parties carrying on different kinds of business-suchas architects, builders, caterers, druggists, dsc-and all arranged inthe saine alphabetical order as the naines of subscribers, so that noseparate marginal index is required.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a face View of my improveddirectory represented open, and thus exhibiting the rst and secondpages. Fig. 2 is a face view of a portion of one of the pages on whichthe names of subscribers are arranged in numerical instead ofalphabetical order. Fig. 3, Sheet 2, is a cross-section of thedirectory.

The sheets or cards a composing the body of the directory are boundloosely to a bacle ing or boa-rd adapted to be suspended from a nail orscrew set in a Wall, as shown in Fig. l..

The cards a are made of thin pasteboard and Will remain flat and lie inany position desired, and may also be turned one Way or the other withgreat facility.

The directory is composed of two parts or divisions, the main part, A,having the subscribers naines arranged alphabetically,wi1ile in the smaller part, B, they are arranged numerically. I will iirst describe partA. On the margin of the cards a are printed alphabetical indices A, B,C, dsc., corresponding to the alphabetical order of the subscribersnames printed on said cards in the usual Way.

Each page of the director f bears, in addi tion to such ordinaryalphabetical naine-list of subscribers, the naines of several individuals, irins or corporations and a statement of their business, allproperly spaced and visually quickly distinguishable. These are arrangedby classes in alphabetical order, as illustrated in Fig. l. Thus on thepages bearing the subscribers surnames beginning with a particularletter I print in addition thereto other naines of business men, firms,or corporations the names of Whose business, occupation, or functionalso begin with the saine letter as the subscribers naines. For example, on the first page, bearing naines of subscribers having the initialA, I print also in separate places or spaces the names a of threeparties the initials of the names of Whose occupations also begin Withsaid letter Af Thus the first of such parties is the firm of Alsup itJohnson, who are architects. The second is Doe Bros, who manufacturetents, awnings, ctc., and the third party is Richard Roe, anattorney-at-laW. The addresses of these several parties are given withthe names. On the margin of the sheet or board, directly opposite therespective naines of the said parties, are printed the titles fArchitects, Awningsj and Attorney-hat- Law.

Again, for further illustration, on the opposite page, bearingsubscribers names having the initial 13, appear also the names of threeparties the names of Whose occupations have the same initial 13. Thusthe title Brick-yard appears in the margin opposite the naine of JohnCube, a bric-l; manufacturer, and the title Builders opposite the naineof Pritchard Bros., carpenters and contractors,17 and the title Bottlingforks opposite the naine of llutf City Bottling Oo. These several titlesindicate the respective occupations of the said parties opposite whichthey are printed.

Thus throughout the directory on each page appear several-say threenamesof parties Whose business occupations have the same initial letters asthe subscribers naines on the samerpage, and on the margin are thetitles of such businesses or occupations directly opposite the names ofsaid parties. The naines and titles are preferably printed IOOsubscribers naines.

in a color say red) different and distinguished from the color (sayblack) in which the subscribers7 vnames appear, so that they are readilydistinguished and no confusion can arise. Besides this the subscribersnames are printed in letters of a different size, and a horizontaldivision-line appears between them' and the names cf the parties Whosebusiness is indicated by marginal titles.

The marginal titles have the same initials as the indices A, B, C ofsubscribers names, so that reference to the titles is easily and quicklymade by the same means as to the Thus any one Wishing to find theaddress of an attorney-at-law refers first to the page bearing thealphabetical index A, and then tothe marginal business indication-toWit, Attorneyatlaw-and opposite the latter he linds the desiredreference, or supposing one desires to iind the address cf a dentist heopens the directory at the letter D and then refers to the title DentistAin the margin.

In connection With the list of telephonesubscribers names alphabeticallyarranged, as before described, l employ a numerical list B. In this (seeFig. 2) the numbers appropriated to the different subscribers areprinted in columns, in regular order, on successive pages from 1 upwardopposite the respective names, and on the margin of each page areprinted the tWe numbers between Which the subscribers numbers on saidpage are included. Thus on page G, Fig. 2 shows names Whose numbersrange numerically from 4215 to 626. Thus one may quickly find the naineof any subscriber Whose number is known; or if a subscriber be called onthe telephone during his absence from home or place of business and toldto call up a certain number on his return he may, if he desires,ascertain Who called him by reference to the number in the numericaldirectory B.

The improved telephone index or directory composed of a series ofsheets, or cards, bound together and having printed thereon subscribersnames arranged in alphabetical order, and also the names and addressesof parties having various occupations, and on J their margins a seriesof letters indicating the alphabetical order of the subscribers names asordinarily printed in a directory. and also a series of business titlesor naines of business occupations Whose initials are the same as theaforesaid letters, the said titles being arranged directly opposite theaforesaid names and addresses of the parties Whose occupationscorrespond to the titles, as shown and described.

JOHN D. BROVNING. Witnesses AMos W. HART, JAs. A. RYAN.

